Living Life in the Land of Milk & Honey
This is a blog post for all parents-to-be and parents who are still adding to their baby gadget inventory! It’s been almost a year and a half since we prepped for the arrival of our first baby, Isabella. My entire pregnancy was an investigation of what baby stuff we needed and how to set up [...]
I’ve had a lot of people either raise an eyebrow or ask me why I am not starting Isabella out on and rice cereal and grains. I have several reasons, but the two most important, are first that I’m trying to avoid processed and refined foods and second that young babies have limited enzyme production, [...]
Fear is a strong motivator. Fear fueled by the unknown is even more powerful. Little girls in my generation grew up with a lot of fear surrounding birth. TV, movies, books and story’s from family and friends paint a picture of a hospital birth where the woman is either screaming her head off, being whisked [...]
Two years ago, I had no idea what a midwife was or knew anyone who had a home birth. I also had no idea how to de-bone a chicken, make broth, milk a cow or find a raw milk dairy, buy pastured meats, raise and process chickens and turkeys, grow vegetables, cook with good oils [...]
